STUFF ... China Wind Power to get $942M loans to build 800Mw solar ... Spain law goes into effect this year to impose retro cuts in subsidy payments to solar system operators. Also plans to make them pay on el they gen, use themselves ... Microorg found in Russia hot springs can digest plants almost 2x as fast as current biofuel enzymes on market: NREL ... Calif snowpack at record low levels ... Carbon emissions just 1 of many factors in ocean acidity levels: study ... Researchers failing to link seeping Arctic methane (from thawing tundra) with climate change ... Arctic warming in recent decades has affected jet stream to allow this deep midwest freeze ... Deadly flooding in Caribbean prompting climate change warning ... Scorching heat wave in Australia ... Quebec, Calif teaming up on cap and trade ... NG, el prices in New England spiked Friday in deep freeze ... ISO New England gave development of transmission project go ahead. Other approvals needed ... Libya announced 350Kb/d oil field may be reopened this week. We've heard that before ... Iraq oil exports avg ~2.3Mb/d in '13. They want 3M more in 2 yrs. Civil war could get very hot ... Kurds got new 300Kb/d pipeline to Turkey working. Oil to be stored at Med port ... Syria rebs blew up main NG pipeline to W Syria again Friday. Hezbollah reportedly smuggling long-range missiles into Lebanon to threaten Israel ... Large foreign investment in US shale oil/gas rapidly drying up. $3.4B in '13, 1/10th of '11. Energy comps lost another $25B in '13 in shale. US drillers turning to Wall St to finance thousands of new wells needed to maintain, increase production. Sweet spots vanishing ... Exxon, Rosneft to start their 1st Arctic well this year, plan to frack shale fields in Siberia, sink deepwater well in Black Sea, build NG export terminal on Russia SIberia coast ... Scientists found near 7.5K sq mi ring of land, water contaminated by mercury surrounding Alberta tar sands ... US secretaries of DOD, DOE, USDA pushing for cost-competitive, drop-in advanced military biofuels program ... OH citizens support $13B investment in clean/renewable energy projects. $1.3B/yr. Initiative headed for Nov ballot ... Oman to double NG prices for some industrial customers to $3MBTU by '15. Oman, BP to develop large untapped NG field. Est. cost $16B over 30 yrs, increase Oman NG production 1/3 ... India delaying solar auction bid deadline again to Jan 20. 750Mw. $300M in grants to cover up to 30% project costs ... Jinko Solar secured $560M in solar project loans from China Development Bank ... China pledging further support for solar ... Enbridge investing $200M in 110Mw TX wind farm ... DOE asking court to reconsider ruling on nuke waste fees ... US west coast sardine collapse ... New UK finance vehicle offers clean energy projects access to capital markets ... RWE (Germany) cut 1.2Gw offshore wind project to 600-900Mw ... US EV, hybrid sales up 84% in '13 to over 96K. Hybrids up 27% ... Atlantis Resources (Singapore), tidal turbine systems maker, targeting 20M Pounds London IPO.